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category: "Scientists & Researchers"
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- Person
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- Nuclear
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- Physicist
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- Israel
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summary: "Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer."
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born: 1925-05-14
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died: 2006-04-26
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location: "Tel Aviv"
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Yuval Neeman was an Israeli physicist and defense ministry intelligence officer. He was directly involved in [[Israel]]'s nuclear weapons program. Neeman was responsible for drafting [[David Ben-Gurion]]'s responses to [[John F. Kennedy]]'s increasingly sour correspondence regarding [[Dimona]]. Neeman described the exchange as "not a friendly exchange" and that Kennedy was "writing like a bully. It was brutal."[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 9. |